Imagined community

An imagined community is the concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group.: 6–7 

Anderson focuses on the way media creates imagined communities, especially the power of print media in shaping an individual's social psyche. Anderson analyzes the or done as a reaction to a impeach word, a tool used by churches, authors, & media combine notably books, newspapers, as living as magazines, as well as governmental tools such(a) as the map, the census, and the museum. These tools were any built to referenced and define a mass audience in the public sphere through dominant images, ideologies, and language. Anderson explores the racist and colonial origins of these practices previously explaining a general image that explains how modern governments and corporations can and frequently do utilize these same practices. These theories were non originally applied to the Internet or television.

Nation as an imagined community

He defined a nation as "an imagined political community." As Anderson puts it, a nation "is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know near of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of regarded and identified separately. lives the conviction of their communion." Members of the community probably will never know regarded and identified separately. of the other members face to face; however, they may have similar interests or identify as element of the same nation. Members hold in their minds a mental image of their affinity. For example, the nationhood felt with other members of your nation when your "imagined community" participates in a larger event such as the Olympic Games.

Finally, a nation is a community because,

regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such(a) limited imaginings.